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I'm very excited for today's show, and I know I say I'm excited

to have on every guest that I've had on the show, but today is really an exception because

I'm very excited to have on Luke DeWolf and Dan Larrabee, the two hosts of the Northern

Myths podcast. And of course, I've talked about their show on my show before, so a lot of you probably

are familiar with their work, but the Northern Myths podcast is an archetypal look at some of

the northern myths of Europe. They've dove deep into the Kalaala, the national epic poem and

myth of Finland and the Hava Mall. And today they'll be talking to us about the

Voluspa, of course, the poem that in Norse Smith and the poetic edda that sort of gets into

the creation of the world as well as Ragnarok, the end time. So Luke and Dan, thank you so much

for joining me today. Glad to be here. Yeah, thank you so much for having us. It's an absolute pleasure. So I guess, you know, before we get into the poetic edda and the Voluspa, I kind of gave you guys an introduction, but I'd love it if you could just sort of tell us about Northern Myths. You know, either one of you can chime into that and just tell us about

Northern Myths, what you guys are up to over there and what the Northern Myths podcast is all

about. Yeah, you sort of hit it on the head here. The way we describe it is an archetypal exploration

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